大有 → 小畜
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Line 4
九四 匪其彭。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He makes a difference Between himself and his neighbor. No blame.
Line 5
六五 厥孚交如。威如。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified, Has good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
一室百子，同公異母；以義防患，禍災不起。
One house, a hundred sons, sharing one father, born of different mothers. With righteousness one guards against calamity; disaster and trouble do not arise.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
One household, a hundred sons, sharing a single lord but born of different mothers. Through righteous principles they guard against calamity, and disaster never arises. The image evokes a great aristocratic household — perhaps a feudal lord's clan with many concubines — where harmony depends not on blood ties but on shared moral discipline. From Great Possession to Small Taming, fire over heaven gives way to wind coursing above heaven. The gentle wind of Xun restrains heaven's vast power through cultural refinement. The verse embodies this precisely: a large, potentially fractious family holds together not through force but through the binding power of righteousness and propriety, preventing the conflicts that difference might breed.
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